ISOLATING CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS


Year of Award:
2015
Status:
Complete
Award Type:
R21
Project Number:
CA182375
RFA Number:
RFA-CA-14-005
Technology Track:
Biospecimen Science Technologies
PI/Project Leader:
SOHN, LYDIA L
Other PI or Project Leader:
N/A
Institution:
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
We propose to develop an efficient, label-free method of isolating and screening CTCs from peripheral blood of breast-cancer patients. For this proposed R21 project, we will focus on breast cancer, but our technique could be generally applied to other can